Political animals: Representing dogs in modern Russian culture

Representing dogs in modern Russian culture, by Henrietta Mondry, Leiden, The Netherlands, Brill, 2015, 432 pp., (pbk), ISBN 0169-0175 In this ambitious book Henrietta Mondry examines representations of dogs in a variety of Russian cultural products, particularly literature but also film and art, from the nineteenth century through to the present. Was the material less available or less rich for certain periods? [...]I might have also liked to see a more direct comparison with the representation of dogs in other (East European, West European, Soviet bloc) contexts, if only to better answer questions about the similarities and differences between Russian and non-Russian dog stories.